Riviera Maya, Q.R. — As of January 2024, police officers in the state of Quintana Roo will be given a significant pay hike. The state’s basic officers will be paid over 21,000 pesos a month plus better benefits. The package is a nearly 50 percent increase over their current earnings.
The announcement came Thursday from Governor Mara Lezama who said Quintana Roo will have the best paid police in the country. She said the goal is not only to increase salaries, but also to make them the most professional in the country.
She said the improved policing will result in more commitment and better security in an act of social justice that seeks to build a police force with the best profiles for the care of citizens.
“Security and the construction of peace is the greatest challenge of this government, so we seek to make a radical change that allows us to have a disciplined, professional, dedicated police force focused on one objective, taking care of the people of Quintana Roo,” she reported in a statement.
Quintana Roo police officers will be trained “with academic preparation, with greater capacity for response, empathy, sensitivity and social proximity for a better fulfillment of their duty and commitment to the people of Quintana Roo as indicated in the New Agreement for the Welfare and Development of Quintana Roo that promotes this humanist and progressive government,” she added.
Mara Lezama said that the basic grade elements will have a monthly net income of 21,911 pesos, an increase of almost 50 percent of their total earnings. In addition, all officers will have life insurance policies for both natural and accidental deaths.
Other police benefits will include additional money to improve police houses and stations, money for additional equipment and the reactivation of scholarships for the children of Quintana Roo police officers.
Governor Lezama said that this is a reform to the State Security Strategy, which includes the creation of the Preventive Police, the Penitentiary Police and the Investigative Police in the State, will be made up of more professional and better evaluated elements.
“Every day we work tirelessly on this task which is not easy. We are making a profound transformation so that we will be able to achieve, with great effort, to improve their conditions, equipment and training to combat crime,” she said.
